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F. L. ROSENTRETER.

SASH HOLDER.

No. 324,885. Patented Aug. 25, 1885.

. lll' l m l .N VEJV TOR ttorney FRANK L. ROSENTRETER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE CHAM- PION SAFETY LOCK AND NOVELTY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE. l

SASH"HOLDEPt.

SPECIFICATION orming part of Letters Patent No. 324,885, dated August 25, 1885.

Application filed January 27, i885.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK L. losnNinn TER, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sash-Fasteners;

and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked 1o thereon, which form part of this specification,

in which- Figure lis aview of my improved sash-lock applied to a window-sash closed. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same open. Fig. 3 is a section on line w, Fig. 2. Fig. 4i is a section on line y y, Fig. 2. Figs. 5 and (i are details of the parts detached.

This invention relates to improvements in locking or clamping devices, and is specially zo adapted fora sash-holder, but by slight modifica-tions may be used as a door lock or for clamping work.

rlhe invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement ofparts hereinafter 2 5 described, and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a guide-piece, of metal, secured to the edge of a window-sash by the screw a, with 3o its parallel guide-edges horizontal; and a is a pin on its inner surface, which enters an opening in the outer surface of the sash, and, in conjunction with the screw, keeps the piece from turning.

B is the latch or bolt, composed ofthe vertical binding bar or plate B and the guide-arms B2 B2, standing from said bar, with their inner edges horizontal, and lying loosely upon the guide-edges of the piece A, for a purpose hereinafter explained.

b is a pin standing outward from the lower guide-arm, and entering an eccentric recess in the inner surface of the latchactuatin g piece C. If desired, a slot may be substituted for the recess.

The piece C is composed of the plate C' and the handle C2, and is secured in place by the screw a, which passes through the guide-piece.

D is the 'straight edge of the plate C', running from the ba-se ofthe handle C2, and lying against the inner surface ot' the binding-bar when the latch is drawn inward on the sash; and D is the curved edge of the plate C', extending from the lower end of the edge D eccentrically around the screw a. to the base of the handle C2. The edge D is beveled outwardly from the outer to the inner surface ot the plate C, and drives the bar B outward from the sash when the handle C2 is turned downward. The inner surface of the bar B is beveled inward at E, so that when the curved edge D presses against it the latchB wifl be pressed against the surface ofthe sash.

E' is a recess 011 the inner surface of or a slot in the plate C', into which recess the pin b enters. The said recess is eccentric to the bolt a, its lower end being nearer thereto than its upper end.

When the straight edge D of the plate C lies against the inner surface of the bindingbar B', the handle C2 is vertical, and the binding-bar is drawn inward from the window strip or stop F. Upon turning the handle downward the eccentricgedge D bears against the inner surface of the binding-bar and 75 drives the same outward against the windowstrip. It also, by its action against the bevel E, binds the latch against the surface of the window, and is itself kept from slipping off the binding-bar. When the handle is turned back, the action ofthe pin b in the eccentric recess or slot E draws the latch from the window-strip.

The latch will hold against the strip at all points beyond that in which the meeting-point of the edges D and D is in the same horizontal line with the screw c. Thus the device will accommodate itself to different distances between the sash and the strip.

By making the guidearms B2 loose on the edges of the guide-piece A the binding-bar B is free to oscillate to a small degree, and will turn its upper end against the strip when it is attempted to force the sash up, and its lower end against the same whenit is attempted to 95 draw the sash down, thus more effectually holding the sash.

The piu b maybe either screwedinto or made in one piece with the lower guide-arm.

If desired, the device may be secured to the roo strip and may bind against the edge of the sash. The outer side of the bindingbar may be either straight or concave.

Having described my invention, I claiml. In a sash-holder, the combination, with a latch composed of a vertical binding-bar and two parallel guide-arms moving on a horizontal guide-piece secured to the sash, of a pivoted actuating-piece provided with an eccentric edge arranged toY bear against the binding-bar and move the latch vin one direction, and an eccentric recess or slot engaging a pin on the latch, and thereby moving the latter in the reverse direction, substantially as specied.

2. In a sash-holder, the combination, with the guidepieee A and latch B, provided with the binding-bar B', having the beveled inner surface, E, of the actuating-piece C, pivoted at a, and provided with the eccentric beveled 2o edge D', adapted to bear against the bevel edge E, when the handle ofthe actuatingpiece is turned downward, substantially as specified. y

3. In a sash-holder, the combination of the guldepiece A and latch B, provided with the lng or pin b, with the actuating-piece C, composed of the handle G2 and plate C', provided with the straight edge D, eccentric edge D', andeccentric slot E', substantially as specilied.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence oi' two witnesses.

FRANK L. ROSENTRETER.

Witnesses T. H. ALEXANDER, W. R. Knvwon'ru. 

